"the screen by Rattigan. It starred Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Burt Lancaster and Wendy Hiller. John Schlesinger directed a television film version in 1983, with Julie Christie and Alan Bates as the two couples, with Claire Bloom as Miss Cooper and Irene Worth as Mrs Railton-Bell. Separate Tables Separate Tables is the collective name of two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, both taking place in the Beauregard Private Hotel, Bournemouth, on the south coast of England. The first play, entitled ""Table by the Window"", focuses on the troubled relationship between a disgraced Labour politician and his ex-wife. The"
"and Cleopatra"" for the Festival of Britain. Later the same year, at Olivier's invitation, the French actors Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud presented a three-week season at the theatre with their own company. In 1954, a Terence Rattigan play, ""Separate Tables"", commenced a run of 726 performances, a record for this theatre. The play (actually two one-act plays, both taking place in the same setting at a hotel in Bournemouth) was intended to star Olivier and Leigh, but scheduling did not permit this, and the plays starred Margaret Leighton and Eric Portman. In 1957, St James's Theatre was scheduled for"
"was first shown on More4 on Monday 26 February 2007. Celebration (play) Celebration is a play by British playwright Harold Pinter. It was first presented as a double-bill, with Pinter's first play ""The Room"" on Thursday 16 March 2000 at the Almeida Theatre in London. The plot revolves around three couples dining in the most expensive restaurant in town (an allusion to The Ivy restaurant in London). At one table are sat two brothers, Lambert and Matt, and two sisters, Prue and Julie. Lambert and Julie are married, as are Matt and Prue. They are celebrating Lambert and Julie's wedding"
"Celebration (play) Celebration is a play by British playwright Harold Pinter. It was first presented as a double-bill, with Pinter's first play ""The Room"" on Thursday 16 March 2000 at the Almeida Theatre in London. The plot revolves around three couples dining in the most expensive restaurant in town (an allusion to The Ivy restaurant in London). At one table are sat two brothers, Lambert and Matt, and two sisters, Prue and Julie. Lambert and Julie are married, as are Matt and Prue. They are celebrating Lambert and Julie's wedding anniversary. Seated at another table are Russell and Suki, who"
"Gascoyne starred in a staging of the play at both the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow and HOME in Manchester. Endgame (play) Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, is a one-act play with four characters. It was originally written in French (entitled ""Fin de partie""); Beckett himself translated it into English. The play was first performed in a French-language production at the Royal Court Theatre in London, opening on 3 April 1957. It is commonly considered, along with such works as ""Waiting for Godot"", to be among Beckett's best works. The play was premiered on 3 April 1957 at the Royal Court Theatre,"
"plays are written to be played by the same performers. The secondary characters – permanent residents, the hotel's manager, and members of the staff – appear in both plays. The plays are about people who are driven by loneliness into a state of desperation. After an out-of-town tryout in Manchester, ""Separate Tables"" had its premiere at the St James's Theatre in London on 22 September 1954, with the following cast: The play was directed by Peter Glenville, with sets by Michael Weight. It opened to good reviews; Harold Hobson called the second play in the double-bill, ""one of Rattigan's masterpieces,"
"Endgame (play) Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, is a one-act play with four characters. It was originally written in French (entitled ""Fin de partie""); Beckett himself translated it into English. The play was first performed in a French-language production at the Royal Court Theatre in London, opening on 3 April 1957. It is commonly considered, along with such works as ""Waiting for Godot"", to be among Beckett's best works. The play was premiered on 3 April 1957 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, directed by Roger Blin, who also played Hamm; Jean Martin was Clov, Georges Adet was Nagg and Christine"
"Parts 1 and 2 1951 Twelfth Night 1952 The Tempest 1953 Romeo and Juliet 1954 Julius Caesar & A Midsummer Night's Dream 1955 Macbeth & As You Like It 1956 Henry V & The Merry Wives of Windsor 1957 King John & Twelfth Night 1958 King Lear & A Midsummer Night's Dream 1959 Henry VIII & The Merchant of Venice 1960 Richard II & The Taming of the Shrew 1961 As You Like It & The Winter's Tale 1962 Much Ado About Nothing & Macbeth 1963 Othello & The Merry Wives of Windsor 1964 Romeo and Juliet & Twelfth Night"
"O2 Academy Bournemouth O Academy Bournemouth is a live entertainment venue in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It is a grade-II listed building. The building was originally the Boscombe Grand Theatre, opening on 17 May 1895. In 1902 it became a music hall called Boscombe Hippodrome. In the 1960s the building then became used as a music venue called Starkers Royal Arcade Ballrooms, which was visited by acts such as Pink Floyd, Status Quo, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, Hawkwind, The Faces and David Bowie. In 1982 the building had a multimillion-pound refurbishment to become the Academy Nightclub. The nightclub had one of"
"the Cambridge Theatre, London, on 7 July 1950, where it ran for 211 performances until 6 January 1951. The cast included Pat Kirkwood, Sylvia Cecil, Graham Payn, Jean Carson and Myles Eason. Mantovani was the musical director. Stage and costume designs were by Gladys Calthrop. Despite its modest run, ""Ace of Clubs"" contained several songs that survived independently, in Coward's later cabaret acts and elsewhere, including ""Sail Away"" and ""I Like America."" A CD of the original London cast recording was released in 2004. Benny runs the Soho nightclub ""The Ace of Clubs"" for the owner, Rita. Felix, the compère,"
"1948. English productions included Anton Chekhov's plays, ""The Seagull"", (1949 at the Lyric Theatre, London and then St. James's Theatre), Jean Anouilh's play, ""Ardele"" (1951 at the Vaudeville Theatre), Noël Coward's play, ""The Vortex"" (1952 at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith), T.S. Eliot's play, ""The Confidential Clerk"" (1953 at the Lyric Theatre), and William Congreve's play, ""The Double Dealer"" (1959 at the Old Vic Theatre, and other plays there that season, with Judi Dench). She also acted in West End productions of plays by Oscar Wilde, including ""Lady Windermere's Fan"" (1945 at the Haymarket Theatre, directed by Sir John Gielgud;"
"surreal edge, and an existential despair; one criticdescribed it as being ""like Samuel Beckett, but with better jokes"". A radio adaptation was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 26 December 2015 featuring Paul Merton, Derek Jacobi, Bernard Cribbins and Catherine Tate. The Bedsitting Room (play) The Bedsitting Room is a satirical play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. It began as a one-act play which was first produced on 12 February 1962 at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, England, where it received good local notices. However, it made little impact on London's theatrical scene for over a year, when it"
"2013. When the rebuilt Brockley Jack pub opened in 1898, it had a large function room at the rear of the building. The room has been used variously as a dance hall, a snooker room and a music venue, and by the 1980s, as nothing much at all. A small group of local actors, David Kincaid, Peter Rocca and Michael Bottle, hit upon the idea of staging dramatic productions in this back room. So, in 1993, the first of these ventures took place: 'An evening with Chekhov', featuring two one-handers, 'On the harmfulness of tobacco' and 'Swan Song'. David and"
"American authors came along in time, these including Maxwell Anderson (Bad Seed), Arthur Miller (The Crucible) and Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie). Edgier productions, for the time, included The Fourposter and Inherit the Wind. An innovation introduced around 1960 seems likely to be unique for the Little Theater at Grossmont, premiere productions of three one-acts, now long resident in the Samuel French Catalog, with cast lists of debut performers and crews. These were An Overpraised Season (1959); Four Bells Means Glory! (1960); and The Salvation of Lonnie McCain (1961), by Richard S. Dunlop. On the original campus, some distance north"
"before the first night Bannerman was taken ill, and Tallulah Bankhead was brought in as a last-minute substitute. The play opened at the Globe on 21 April 1925 and ran for 158 performances, until 29 August. The play is set in the London flat of Frederick and Julia Sterroll in 1925. Two youngish men, Frederick Sterroll and William Banbury, go off on a golfing trip, leaving their wives to amuse themselves as best they can. The wives have each received a postcard from Maurice Duclos, whose lovers they had both been before their marriages. He tells them he is due"
"Separate Tables (film) Separate Tables is a 1958 American drama film starring Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Burt Lancaster, and Wendy Hiller, based on two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan that were collectively known by this name. Niven and Hiller won Academy Awards for their performances. The picture was directed by Delbert Mann and adapted for the screen by Rattigan, John Gay and an uncredited John Michael Hayes. Mary Grant and Edith Head designed the film's costumes. The film is set in the Hotel Beauregard. Major David Angus Pollock (David Niven) fails to hide an article about himself in"
"acquired ownership. The sketch was also staged elsewhere, for example in 1953 in ""John Murray Anderson's Almanac"" (the show that also featured Harry Belafonte in the early days of his career) at the Imperial Theatre with Hermione Gingold playing Miss Sophie, Billy DeWolfe as the butler, and apparently featuring four dead friends. In 1962, German entertainer Peter Frankenfeld and director Heinz Dunkhase discovered ""Dinner for One"" in Blackpool. The sketch was staged in Frankenfeld's live show shortly thereafter, and recorded on 8 July 1963 at the ""Theater am Besenbinderhof"", Hamburg, in front of a live audience. The introductory theme was"
"Bournemouth Winter Gardens Bournemouth Winter Gardens was a theatre located in Bournemouth, England. It was first constructed in 1875 as an exhibition centre, but reopened in 1893 as a popular classical music venue. It was demolished and replaced just prior to World War II and became a popular rock music venue in the 1960s. The Gardens have been closed since 2002 and are currently awaiting redevelopment. The original building was a glass-clad structure constructed in 1875, similar to the Crystal Palace in London. It was appropriately named the Crystal Palace of the Summer and Winter Gardens with a capacity of"
"in November 1950. This was followed by ""The Vision of Mac Conglinne"" (1953), ""Two Men with a Face"" (1953), ""The Poplar"" (1953), ""Steeple Jerkin"" (1954), ""The Wooing of Étain"" (1954), ""A Man in the Window"" (1955), ""Outpost"" (1955), ""Deirdre's King"" (1956), ""The Five Stations"" (1957), ""The Hags of Clough"" (1957), ""The Third Bachelor"" (1958), ""At the Bridge Inn"" (1960) and ""Lighting up Time"" (1961). Three plays adapted from Irish mythology, ""Diarmuid and Gráinne"", ""The Vision of Mac Conglinne"" and ""Deirdre's King"", received particular contemporary critical acclaim. The landscape, mythology and history of Ireland, interwoven with classical themes and religious symbolism,"
"(Dutch television) and 1983 (French television). Hughie Hughie is a short two-character play by Eugene O’Neill set in the lobby of a small hotel on a West Side street in midtown New York during the summer of 1928. The play is essentially a long monologue delivered by a small-time hustler named Erie Smith to the hotel’s new night clerk Charlie Hughes, lamenting how Smith’s luck has gone bad since the death of Hughie, Hughes' predecessor. O’Neill wrote ""Hughie"" in 1942, although it did not receive its world premiere until 1958, when it was staged in Sweden at the Royal Dramatic"
"on the site. Citations Sources Bournemouth Winter Gardens Bournemouth Winter Gardens was a theatre located in Bournemouth, England. It was first constructed in 1875 as an exhibition centre, but reopened in 1893 as a popular classical music venue. It was demolished and replaced just prior to World War II and became a popular rock music venue in the 1960s. The Gardens have been closed since 2002 and are currently awaiting redevelopment. The original building was a glass-clad structure constructed in 1875, similar to the Crystal Palace in London. It was appropriately named the Crystal Palace of the Summer and Winter"
"Play (play) Play is a one-act play by Samuel Beckett. It was written between 1962 and 1963 and first produced in German as Spiel on 14 June 1963 at the Ulmer Theatre in Ulm-Donau, Germany, directed by Deryk Mendel, with Nancy Illig (W1), Sigfrid Pfeiffer (W2) and Gerhard Winter (M). The first performance in English was on 7 April 1964 at the Old Vic in London. The curtain rises on three identical grey funeral “urns”, about three feet tall by preference, arranged in a row facing the audience. They contain three stock characters. In the middle urn is a man"
"Lyceum Theatre on 27 April 1999. The same four actors who had appeared in the Galway and London productions also appeared in the Broadway production: Brían F. O'Byrne played Valene, Maelíosa Stafford played Coleman, David Ganly played Father Welsh, and Dawn Bradfield played Girleen. Garry Hynes directed all three productions. The play closed on 13 June 1999 after 55 performances and 9 previews. The Lonesome West The Lonesome West is a play by contemporary Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, part of his Connemara trilogy, which includes ""The Beauty Queen of Leenane"" and ""A Skull in Connemara"". All three plays depict the"
"join forces to try and prevent their secret pasts from coming back to haunt them. In 1951 the play was adapted into a film made at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith and starring Robertson Hare and Stanley Holloway. The film featured a brief cameo role from Audrey Hepburn. One Wild Oat (play) One Wild Oat is a comedy play by the British writer Vernon Sylvaine which premiered in 1948. It's West End run was at the Garrick Theatre with direction by the veteran entertainer Jack Buchanan. It ran for 508 performances from December 1948 to February 1950. The cast originally"
"Chamber Music (play) Chamber Music is a 1962 one-act play by absurdist playwright Arthur Kopit. The story is set in 1938 and concerns eight famous women from different historical periods who all are interned in the same insane asylum. The women are — or at least believe they are — author Gertrude Stein, martyr Joan of Arc, activist Susan B. Anthony, politician Queen Isabella I of Spain, Constanze Mozart (wife of the famed composer), pilot Amelia Earhart, silent-film actress Pearl White, and explorer Osa Johnson. They have come together to represent the women of the asylum in planning for an"
"The Collection (play) The Collection is a 1961 play by Harold Pinter featuring two couples, James and Stella and Harry and Bill. It is a comedy laced with typically ""Pinteresque"" ambiguity and ""implications of threat and strong feeling produced through colloquial language, apparent triviality, and long pauses"" (""Oxford English Dictionary""). ""The Collection"" takes place on a divided stage, shared by a house in London's Belgravia, and a flat in Chelsea, with another space between them where telephone calls take place; according to Pinter's stage description, the ""three areas"" comprise ""two peninsulas and a promontory"" (""Three Plays"" [43]). Bill, a dress"
"Reviewing for ""The New York Times"", Howard Taubman wrote, ""Ira Levin's new comedy, which opened at the Ethel Barrymore last night, is not much of a play."" And, ""Otto Preminger's staging discloses a seasoned hand, although his pacing often turns languid and his ideas for comedy run thin, like the playwright's."" In 1963, the play was made into a film of the same name starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. The action takes place in the Ballantines’ Washington Square duplex apartment in Manhattan. Act One opens on Parker, Angela, and John Ballantine at the breakfast table. John reports that the"
"The Bedsitting Room (play) The Bedsitting Room is a satirical play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. It began as a one-act play which was first produced on 12 February 1962 at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, England, where it received good local notices. However, it made little impact on London's theatrical scene for over a year, when it was adapted to a longer play and Bernard Miles put it on at the Mermaid Theatre, where it was first performed on 31 January 1963 before transferring several weeks later to the Duke of York's Theatre in London's West End. The"
"on stage, although it is never made completely clear whether he is a real ghost or just a figment of Beth's imagination. The entire play takes place in the living room of what was Gordon and Beth's house, now very much Beth's house, also temporarily doubling up as her bedroom whilst guests are present. There is also a hatchway to the kitchen where some of the action takes place. The play takes place in two acts over 24 hours on Christmas. Act one takes place in a single scene on before dinner on Christmas Eve. Act Two takes place over"
"in a modern style. The reconstructed theatre opened 8 July 1959 with John Gielgud's solo performance in ""Shakespeare speeches and sonnets, Ages of Man"". Since April 2004, the theatre has played host to Cameron Mackintosh's production of ""Les Misérables"" which transferred after 18 years at the nearby Palace Theatre. The musical celebrated its 20th anniversary at the venue on 8 October 2005 and overtook ""Cats"" as the longest running musical of all time a year later on 8 October 2006. The theatre was Grade II listed by English Heritage in June 1972. An extensive refurbishment was undertaken in the latter"
"The Living Room (play) The Living Room is a 1953 play by Graham Greene; it was the first play he wrote in his career. The play consists of two acts, each of two scenes and is set entirely in the living room of Rose Pemberton and her two elderly aunts who live with the aunts' brother James, a disabled Roman Catholic priest. The aunts have a long running fear of death in the house, with any bedroom being locked away from further use following a death of its resident family member. The story resolves around the introduction of Rose's new"
"Will You Walk?"", which opened on December 1, 1953, starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy; later that season Montgomery Clift starred in ""The Seagull"". In the following years, the Phoenix Theatre mounted more productions featuring notable figures of the theatre both on stage and behind it. The Phoenix Theatre moved to a new location in 1961. Ann Corio then mounted her successful nostalgic review ""This Was Burlesque"" at the theatre, beginning in 1962. Corio later took her show on the road. From 1965 to 1969, the building was the Gayety Theatre, a more raunchy burlesque house, and the only one"
"The Long Christmas Dinner The Long Christmas Dinner is a play in one act written by American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder in 1931. In its first published form, it was included in the volume ""The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act"". The characters, as they are listed in the script: Setting: 90 years in the dining room of the Bayard House. Length: ~35 minutes Summary: A one-act drama about several generations of one family: A play whose action traverses ninety years and represents in accelerated motion ninety Christmas dinners in the Bayard home. The development of"